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Joseph Lubin

A Canadian-American entrepreneur. He has founded and co-founded several companies, including the Swiss-based EthSuisse, contributing heavily to Ethereum, the decentralized cryptocurrency platform. In addition, Lubin is the founder of ConsenSys, a Brooklyn-based software-production studio. In February 2018, Forbes estimated Lubin’s net worth in cryptocurrency to be between one and five billion dollars.

In early 2014, Lubin was Chief Operating Officer of Ethereum Switzerland GmbH (EthSuisse), a company working to extend the capabilities of blockchains first popularized by Bitcoin.

Lubin was also involved in creating the Ethereum Foundation, a Toronto-based non-profit organization to be a “nonpartisan industry body, made up of [a cross-section of] industry players. It [is intended to] make sure the Ethereum infrastructure works fairly and independently … like ICANN for the Internet.”

He subsequently founded ConsenSys in 2015, a decentralized blockchain production studio. It develops software for Ethereum and also provides decentralized software services to companies. They also do enterprise and government consulting. The European Union has picked ConsenSys to be one of the primary companies to help spread blockchain across Europe. In addition, Lubin is involved in cross-industry groups attempting to advance solutions to governance issues in the blockchain industry.

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Gavin Wood

Gavin Wood is a British computer programmer who co-founded Ethereum. He invented Solidity, wrote the Yellow Paper specifying the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and served as the Ethereum Foundation’s first chief technology officer. After leaving in 2016, he co-founded Parity Technologies, which develops core infrastructure for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and other blockchain technologies.

Before developing Ethereum, Wood worked as a research scientist at Microsoft. He co-founded Ethereum, which he has described as “one computer for the entire planet,” with Vitalik Buterin and others from 2013 to 2014. Wood wrote Ethereum’s coding language, Solidity, and released the Yellow Paper defining the Ethereum Virtual Machine, the runtime system for Smart contracts in Ethereum, in 2014. He also served as the Ethereum Foundation’s first chief technology officer. Wood left Ethereum in 2016. Instead, wood founded Parity Technologies, which independently developed a client for the Ethereum network and creates software for companies using blockchain technology. The company released the Parity Ethereum software client, written in Rust, in early 2016. He serves as Parity’s CWO as of 2018.

He founded the Web3 Foundation, a nonprofit organization focusing on decentralized internet infrastructure and technology.

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Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer primarily known as a co-founder of Ethereum and a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine.

Buterin is a co-founder and inventor of Ethereum, described as a “decentralized mining network and software development platform rolled into one” that facilitates the creation of new cryptocurrencies and programs that share a single blockchain (a cryptographic transaction ledger). Buterin first described Ethereum in a white paper in late 2013. Buterin argued that bitcoin needed a scripting language for application development. But when he failed to gain agreement, he proposed the development of a new platform with a more general scripting language.

About the Ethereum Project, Buterin has said: “I am truly grateful to have the opportunity to work in such an interesting and interdisciplinary area of industry, where I have the chance to interact with cryptographers, mathematicians, and economists prominent in their fields, to help build software and tools that already affect tens of thousands of people around the world, and to work on advanced problems in computer science, economics and philosophy every week.” However, in a 2018 New Yorker article, his father suggests that Buterin is trying to avoid the focus on him as the philosopher king of the blockchain world. “He is trying to focus his time on research,” Dmitry [Buterin’s father] said. “He’s not too excited that the community assigns so much importance to him. He wants the community to be more resilient

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